Happy International Vulture Awareness Day. Save Vulture, Save Environment. The first Saturday in September each year is International Vulture Awareness Day.

White-rumped Vulture and Slender-billed Vulture seen on Monday in Vulture restaurant Pokhara, Nepal.

Picture: Krishna Mani Baral

This year September 5 is International Vulture Awareness Day. Vultures are an ecologically vital group of birds that face a range of threats in many areas that they occur. Populations of many species are under pressure and some species are facing extinction.

These scavengers do the dirty work of cleaning up after death helping to keep ecosystems healthy and prevent the spread of disease. Vulture help to clean environment and human to be healthy. Save Vulture, Save Environment.